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Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and all this, and the President was still the president, and Dad was very concerned, I can remember him being very concerned about--well, like the Denver [Salt Lake City?] speech. I remember when they were going to do it, and I was just hoping it was going
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this on balance and go right on? C: We would like for her not to have been assigned by the Post to cover. But when they assigned her, we couldn't do anything but accept her, put up with her, and hope we survived. F: And did. Did you ever have any opportunity
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • dedicated a space science building there and accepted an honorary degree from the University of Denver thereafter, he went on down to Denver to accept it. But the first site--we had been out and prepared a site for them. We anticipated about ten thousand
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- IX -- 6 Denver for twelve states. I met him at Lowry Air Force Base. I had been to Washington, and I had talked to Aubrey Williams, the director of NYA, and I'd asked him if it was going to fold up. "Yes, Sam Houston, we are going to fold." I said
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • priority item in his campaign. I tried in various speeches, including particularly the one he gave at Denver, to stress this education priority. So in the course of doing that I began to work with Frank Keppel, who was Commissioner of Education, and others
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was coming down from his communism and he was criticized. He had to defend himself. And he did in a speech in their party circles. Those secret speeches almost always leak. The Washington Post has got a long section this morning on something in the Justice
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was coming down from his communism and he was criticized. He had to defend himself. And he did in a speech in their party circles. Those secret speeches almost always leak. The Washington Post has got a long section this morning on something in the Justice
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Another storm-tossed-- B: Right. F: On this matter of national disasters, how far do you go on that? In previous planning, do you to a great extent react when it happens, or do you anticipate what you're going to do in case an earthquake hits Denver
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • died and the little baby died, and the sister was injured very badly, including a brain injury. So I had to fly home from Denver and stay with the family. The sister was still unconscious. She was in Crawford W. Long Hospital in Atlanta. At that point I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the University of Missouri, and being from Texas back in 1928, why, not too many were from Texas. They hadn't heard of anybody's initials much, so it was a lot easier to call me Tex. So that's where I picked up that. Then I worked on the Denver Post for five
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the computer certain directions, and somebody lit a match under that big firecracker, in about twenty minutes"--that's about the time it takes-. !'Denver, your hometown, would look like a Hiroshima or Nagasaki ," God, could it do that?" "My I said, "It could
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the Washington Post. escapes me. His name for the moment He's business manager of the Post now. But anyway, I had met him on this occasion in 1960 when the President was beginning to campaign. I had no difficulty at that time--Carl Friedrich at Harvard
Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , professionals, engineers. God, we couldn't get Johnson out of there, he was enjoying himself so much. He was supposed to go to Denver, I believe, and they just couldn't get him out of there. The Secret Service guys kept trying to prod him out, and he said
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • milling around out in a field with tents, and tractors, and a table full of food, and hopeful candidates, and at brief times of each one getting to speak. It was sort of a Saturday Evening Post cover, a little bit of Americana. And there were the lively
  • ; protocol at government social events; decorator Genevieve Hendricks; the many people with whom the Johnsons socialized; Marjorie Merriweather Post; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in parties and other cultures; Mrs. Johnson's interest in cooking; the Johnson's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were ongoing at that time; he reported on Denver and Atlanta as good meetings, Louisville as not [good] and that Detroit and Ohio were outstanding. But he does say--this is now on the twenty-third of September--"There's no decision on who will head up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . Johnson was taking her farewell trip Mrs. Cohen and I went with her to New Orleans. And she went on to Denver. And in the 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Denver at Lowry Field for three months and was LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • paper, in the Post. F: They had this folk opera out there. P: Yes. And two of the most prominent people in connection with it were born in Texarkana. F: I was going to say this Scott Joplin came out of there. P: He was born there. And this black
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org - -----­ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XIV -- 10 post, and (Charles] Halleck defeated [Joseph] Martin
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Lovejoy watching the Convention." chamber. I I'll be at I walked out of the Senate About two days after the Convention was over, I got a call from Lyndon Johnson in Denver, Colorado. Palace Hotel. He was at the Brown He said, "Herman, I just wanted
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • district attorney in Denver, or in Colorado. kept watching the ticker tape. We were watching it, I think, when we got the word that they had arrested Oswald. there for several hours. And we And so it was so chaotic Then, of course, there was all
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the alumni association, nationwide, and he was the principal speaker. I've seen Peter Dominick from time to time. Our law firm has had some relations with their law firm in Denver--Holand and Hart. Also, Peter visited me in Vietnam--he didn't visit me
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • director for twelve states, in Denver, of the National Youth Administration. Well, he called up there to me and told me to go see a doctor and see if I couldn't gain some weight, that he had a job for me. I went and saw a doctor. vitamin shots; I ate
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • me that he had already called Shirley Povich at the Washington Star--or the Post, I've forgotten which Shirley was working for--and had informed them � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • memoirs of this incident. (Interruption} Going back to the time after Johnson was elected to the Congress, he had friends in the WPA and the NYA in Washington. A fellow named Orrin Lull, L-U-L-L, came out of Denver or Colorado somewhere to become
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Associated Press], that is, the staff head, Frank Starzel. And he said, "Take along Ep [E. Palmer] Hoyt." And Ep I knew, and Ep was the editor of the Denver Post at the time. I asked him what he wanted, and he said he wanted to find out whether he was getting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • it into the Rocky Mountain Empire Magazine in Denver. I appeared in the American Legion Monthly once. 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • west? R: It was on the only rOqd you can get--direct road--from Austin to Fredericksburg. It was, as today, through Johnson City. Mail came in from three places every day. At the post office in the morning we arranged the mail to go on a star
  • Circumstances of Redford’s arrival to Johnson City in 1912; Johnson City at that time; handling the mail; Redford’s mother as postmistress; working at the Post Office; people in Johnson City and their way of life; roads; building the highway
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 15 (XV), 11/20/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • swearing-in. There seems to have been some question as to whether to hold that swearing-in at Hye, [Texas], at the general store post office, or whether to do it at the [LBJ] Ranch. There was initially some plan to do it at the Ranch. Any recollection
  • when O'Brien became postmaster general; initiatives to change the postal service; whether or not patronage from postal employees would have an effect on congressional support for Post Office Department reform; O'Brien's meeting with Charles Schultze
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • arrived in Poland on November 30, 1965. M: You stayed in that post then until when this year? G: I stayed in that post until May 3l, 1968 at which time I resigned with the approval of the President in order to participate in Hubert Humphrey's political
  • Appointment and service as Postmaster General by JFK, re-appointment by LBJ, Adlai Stevenson’s statement at first Cabinet meeting. Differences in JFK and LBJ attitudes towards Cabinet (preferred LBJ’s). Johnson’s influence on Post Office matters
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and brother-in-law, and my son and Elva and I went down and I didn't even have any idea what the procedure would be. I was taken aback when I was told, "Let's all get in the motorcade. We're going to this post office," which the President claimed was the post
  • in the postal service; job offers O'Brien received in 1965 and roles he held throughout his career; how O'Brien balanced doing both congressional relations and post office work; requests to O'Brien for patronage; the Post Office Department budget
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)